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Date:

March 15, 1837

Extent:

4 p

Summary:

This document is a letter written by C. J. F. Mitchell, the sister-in-law of Charles F. Welcker, dated March 15, 1837. Mitchell writes to her sister and brother-in-law in Talladega, Alabama and informs them of the latest news from her school in Winchester, Tennessee, and she asks about the condition of all the family.

I saw your Brother G. L. [George Lewis] Welcker last night. he said that he was directly from your house & brought me the news of your being well which gratified me very much he Said that M. E. W. was not a going to School now. I hope you are a making money fast and Margaret is now going to school and learning fast I am getting along with my studies tolerable well. I am Now a studying Latin, Euclid, and Geography. I wish you 2 and [unclear: I ] Margaret would come here and see me when you come on to your Father's__ My friend Madison Pyles has got the chills again and I too. I have not had one in 2 weeks I believe he had one to day. I hope though we will not have anymore after this time. I think it may be that I and

He will come to your house at the vacation [added: if we are well and hearty-] But dont look for us for we may not come and so you will be disappointed if you look for us.- And So I advise you not to look for us. I think after this Session we will go to Nashville or Knoxville I do not know which of the two but I should suppose Nashville Pa never told me which of the places for certain. I hope you are well and hearty & a doing good business. I am almost out of any thing fit to write. I want to ask you a question was [added: you] a White or Van Buren man I want to know that

Give Madison's and my [added: greatest] love and respects to Margaret and that other Welcker (that stays in the town of Talladega. Lewis told me his name but I do not recollect it now) and recieve [receive] yourselves the same